Opinion
Trotsky vs. Bezos: Seattle's race for District 3 echoes throughout local history
The contest between Kshama Sawant and Egan Orion is the latest manifestation of the city's perennial conflict between the left and big business.
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
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Culture
UW seeks $13M to renovate the ‘Boys in the Boat’ shell house
The first city-sanctioned historic landmark on campus is going for a gold-medal makeover.
Opinion
Yes, there were black slaves in the Pacific Northwest. Historians are making our region confront it
An Oregon author is exploring little-known chapters of the region's ugly, racist roots.
Culture
Everything about the Pacific Northwest is on display at the new Burke Museum. Even the scientists.
The museum's new home brings its researchers out of the basement, and delivers a love letter of fossils and artifacts to our region.
Focus
Finding hints of our future in the epic blazes of the Northwest's past
A visit to the site of the Norse Peak fire — the worst in Western Washington since the Yacolt Burn of 1902 — reveals both the promise and limits of human forest management.